Human rights standards worldwide are under “unprecedented pressure,” the U.N. said Thursday, warning that “the rhetoric of fascism” was becoming commonplace in parts of Europe and the United States. Speaking ahead of the international Human Rights Day on Saturday, U.N. rights chief Zeid Ra’ad ...

Over 1,300 migrants have been rescued from the Mediterranean over the past 48 hours with 16 bodies recovered, the Italian coast guard said Monday. On Sunday, the Italian coast guard ship Diciotti discovered 11 bodies on a boat that had run into difficulty, while ...

Two women died of hypothermia during an operation to rescue more than 730 migrants off the Libyan coast, the Italian coast guard and medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Sunday. The women were found unconscious in a large dinghy in the Mediterranean that ...

Women migrants fleeing wars, political instability and poverty are taking contraceptives in the expectation of being raped but are so desperate they still embark on the journey, a human rights group said on Wednesday. Women and girls who risk sexual violence as they flee ...

At least eight people were confirmed dead Tuesday and many more were missing after a new series of boat tragedies left Italy on the verge of a record year for migrant arrivals. Confirming the latest fatalities in what is already a record year for ...

A hundred migrants were feared drowned Thursday after yet another migrant shipwreck off the Libyan coast, raising the number of those missing feared drowned this week to 340. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said around 100 people were believed to have drowned in the Mediterranean ...

Around 100 people were missing, feared drowned, in the Mediterranean on Tuesday after a migrant dinghy capsized off Libya, according to rescue teams frantically searching for survivors in darkness and rough seas. German NGO Jugend Rettet, whose boat was at the scene, said 23 ...

Austria said on Monday it will meet with its Balkan neighbors to discuss what action they might take if a deal with Turkey aimed at restricting the flow of illegal migrants into the European Union collapses. Turkey has threatened to walk away from the ...

Libya’s coast guard said it rescued 115 migrants on Sunday who had been aboard a rubber boat that broke down off Tripoli, and that one migrant had drowned. The migrants “were on a rubber boat that broke down northwest of Khoms,” some 100 km ...

Survivors say as many as 240 people have died in two shipwrecks off Libya, the U.N. refugee agency reported Thursday, bringing this year’s toll to more than 4,220 migrants dead or missing in risky Mediterranean Sea crossings, the highest count on record. Carlotta Sami, ...

French authorities prepared on Thursday to dismantle a makeshift migrant camp in central Paris, its numbers swelled by refugees from a larger settlement in Calais that was meanwhile shut down for good. In twin actions that epitomised Europe’s failure to adequately cater for the ...